December 13, 2017 - If nothing else, Tuesday’s special election for Senator in Alabama is a fascinating case of electronic discovery. The day before the election, “Montgomery County Circuit Judge Roman Ashley Shaul granted a preliminary injunction directing counties to set voting machines ‘to preserve all digital ballot images,’” writes Mary Papenfuss in the Huffington Post. “The order was...... READ MORE

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I’ve been switching over from a test desktop to a Dell All-in-One for Insider Preview testing and experimentation. We’ve moved the Asrock Z97 Killer with i7 4770K CPU, 32 GB RAM, and 500 GB mSATA SSD, upstairs. In return, I’ve picked up and fixed his Dell XPS 2720 All-in-One touchscreen PC for use i…READ MORE

Microsoft Azure Data Lake is a highly scalable public cloud service that allows developers, scientists, business professionals and other Microsoft customers to gain insight from large, complex data sets. Continued…

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“Finding a balance between regulating the data lake and keepin…READ MORE

With the growing popularity of wearable devices for things like fitness, medical monitoring and tracking things like keys, their use in occupational health and safety seems like a given. Wearable devices with the right combination of sensors can be used to monitor not only the surrounding conditions…READ MORE

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the audio visual (AV) industry, which has its annual European flagship event, ISE2018, in February. This article looks at how open systems are starting to transform AV infrastructure.

New rules being introduced next year by the Financial Conduct Authority, to force banks to publish details of major security and operational incidents, instead of hearing about them on Twitter, is great news in principle but in practice its effectiveness might be limited.

A couple of years ago, Intel invited me to a press luncheon to talk about how great their new chips were. They had new chips that were faster and used less power, and they were selling like hot cakes. The food was good and the new machines were smaller and ran a few minutes longer on batteries than …READ MORE

Auto-programming will become the centerpiece of enterprise application development in 2018. As we move into the new year, we’ll see more application developers leverage the newest artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to algo…READ MORE

Whose concern is it whether your customers derive a business benefit from using your product or service? At Signavio, a vendor of business process management software, it’s the customer success manager’s.

You might be thinking, Who’s that now? Jim Smith, senior customer success manager at Signavi…READ MORE

It has been rolled into a new division, Hitachi Vantara. That is, HDS, with its largely enterprise-focussed data storage products has been joined with the Internet of Things-focussed Hitachi Insight and the analytics arm, Pentaho.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new draft guidance clarifying its oversight of mobile medical apps. Furthermore, the agency will loosen its regulations for certain technologies it has deemed outside of its purview. The changes have been made in accordance with the 21st Century Cure…READ MORE

Conferences, no matter the size all have one thing in common, they all require the same thing to run from Breakfast until Dinner for the day (or multiple days) that the event runs. That thing they need to run on is cash. The less expensive the event is to the attendee, the more the team running the …READ MORE

Robots should be ideal at home or in the workplace, right? These fully co-operative, obedient and reliable machines should make all our lives easier, right? They can’t think for themselves, they can’t make decisions for themselves, they can’t take out the human race, right?!